JUSTICE MALALA: Oh My Godongwana
With the budget out the way, South Africa needs the finance minister to take a leading role in guiding it out of the wilderness
22 February 2023 - 06:00
Fifteen years after it happened, I still cannot work out what it is judge John Hlophe thought he would achieve by visiting the offices of Constitutional Court justices Bess Nkabinde and Chris Jafta back in 2008.
Apparently Hlophe visited Nkabinde and Jafta in their chambers — separately — and bent their ears about the little matter of one Jacob Zuma, the perennial corruption accused, that was before their court. Hlophe made it known to them that he believed Zuma — here we go — was being persecuted...
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